The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: KAMPONG GLAM, LITTLE INDIA AND CHINATOWN REFLECTIVE OF ETHNICITY IN SINGAPORE As a bright white West Highland Terrier perhaps I should dare to say there are very few Caucasians visible in Singapore despite the fact of its British colonial heritage. Ethnic Chinese comprise 75.5 %Continue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: KAMPONG GLAM, LITTLE INDIA AND CHINATOWN REFLECTIVE OF ETHNICITY IN SINGAPORE”
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“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom” :THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: FEAR AND LOATHING IN SINGAPORE
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: FEAR AND LOATHING IN SINGAPORE Finally, we arrived for our late lunch at “The Crooked Crab” one of several restaurants Bobby Jr. quipped, “We own here in Singapore”. They evidently knew Bobby Jr. and I could smell fear on them upon their greeting of us.Continue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom” :THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: FEAR AND LOATHING IN SINGAPORE”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: THE SUPERSPREADERS FROM WUHAN INFECT SINGAPORE CASINO
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: THE SUPERSPREADERS FROM WUHAN INFECT SINGAPORE CASINO I was under the impression we were on our way to lunch and quite frankly I was ravenous, but we had a stop at Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa Hotel and Casino. Bobby Jr. told me the Superspreaders fromContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: THE SUPERSPREADERS FROM WUHAN INFECT SINGAPORE CASINO”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: HOT AND SWEATY INDIANS AND BURMESE AND BOBBY FONG JR.’S BULGING MANILA ENVELOPES
The Singapore Times Exclusive: HOT AND SWEATY INDIANS AND BURMESE: BOBBY FONG JR.’S BULGING MANILA ENVELOPE Bobby Jr. isn’t such a bad guy at least compared to his mother Madame Fong. I keep saying to myself a mantra “play along until the time is right”. On our way to lunch I notice road construction everywhereContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: HOT AND SWEATY INDIANS AND BURMESE AND BOBBY FONG JR.’S BULGING MANILA ENVELOPES”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom” : THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: BOBBY FONG JR. THE FAGAN OF SINGAPORE AND NO WAY I AM TO BE OLIVER TWIST
The Singapore Times Exclusive: BOBBY FONG JR. THE FAGAN OF SINGAPORE AND NO WAY I AM TO BE OLIVER TWIST Madame Fong’s son Bobby Jr., a fat man with a stomach the size of three Russian Wolfhounds and horrific bad breath attributable to excessive Durian consumption, was ordered by his mother to acclimatize me toContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom” : THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: BOBBY FONG JR. THE FAGAN OF SINGAPORE AND NO WAY I AM TO BE OLIVER TWIST”
RKS Literature: The Naked Yogi of Maabar (Marco Polo)
“When other men ask them why they go naked and are not ashamed to show their members, they reply, “We go naked because we want nothing of this world; for we came naked and unclothed into this world. As for not being ashamed to show our members, the fact is that we do not sinContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Naked Yogi of Maabar (Marco Polo)”
RKS Japanese Literature: The Idiocy of Macaroons (Mieko Kawakami)
“So the day after next, I bought a pile of colourful macaroons at the macaroon shop in the arcade….I placed the box of macaroons and cherries on the coffee table with a polite bow. Thanking me with a smile, she took the two boxes to the kitchen and soon returned with some coffee and theContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: The Idiocy of Macaroons (Mieko Kawakami)”
RKS Japanese Literature: That 2 p.m. Tokyo Feeling (Mieko Kawakami)
“It was two o’clock in the afternoon-that most vacant time of the day when the laundry is done and the vacuum put away but it’s still too early to go food shopping. The time when you feel most keenly that you are useless and the world is silently laughing at you from afar. No matterContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: That 2 p.m. Tokyo Feeling (Mieko Kawakami)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: TRAPPED IN SINGAPORE IN A BAD WAY: WHAT IS MY STRATEGY?
THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: TRAPPED IN SINGAPORE IN A BAD WAY: WHAT IS MY STRATEGY? The Singapore Times Exclusive: TRAPPED IN SINGAPORE IN A BAD WAY: WHAT IS MY STRATEGY: I woke up at noon the following day feeling not so great. Dehydration and jet lag. I was locked in the chewing gumContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: TRAPPED IN SINGAPORE IN A BAD WAY: WHAT IS MY STRATEGY?”
RKS Literature: Too Lazy to Make His Bed (Kōji Uno)
“Every single day since then he has spent either visiting friends or sleeping. Sanasku’s style of sleeping deserves special mention. His small tatami-matted room has the standard tall, deep closet divided by a sturdy shelf into upper and lower compartments for storing his futon and covers behind a pair of sliding paper doors, but SanaskuContinue reading “RKS Literature: Too Lazy to Make His Bed (Kōji Uno)”
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